From the convention thread, I think my short analysis sums it all up pretty good, so post it here, and I include a portion of what firefly wrote, which I think may sum up many Obama supporter sentiments:
firefly wrote:
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Unfortunately, I did not feel any emotional impact from the speech that Obama then gave. I wanted him to sweep me off my feet, and help me put aside my regrets that Hillary wasn't standing on that stage in his place. I wanted him to dispel my lingering doubts about his lack of experience. I wanted him to show me how he would rally people to prevent another Republican take-over of the White House. But, for me, those things just didn't happen last night. He gave a perfectly adequate speech, for the circumstances, but it fell far short of being inspiring or even revealing. He did not say what I needed to hear.
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Actually, alot of his laundry list sounded pretty Republicanish. For all the talk about change, when he finally gets to specifics, it sounded pretty much like same old same old run of the mill stuff, which actually is comforting to me, because all of this change stuff means what, change to what? I happen to think the country is a pretty good place now, and so whats all the beating of the chest for change?
He talked about the opportunities he had, he is living proof what a poor kid born into a poor family could achieve in this country, through education and work. So why run down the country, after knowing what you can achieve? Sheesh, what more can a country do for a person, guarantee a monthly paycheck for doing nothing? So I think his entire speech proved his change mantra to be pretty vaccuous and always has been pretty empty, nothing more than a chant to work up the emotions, and when his laundry list was ticked off, big deal, we are back to tweaking a pretty good system, not changing it entirely.
But underneath it all, there is the lurking suspicion that he really does have something more than tweaking the system, but he isn't rolling it out now, which makes him less than honest. Which brings us back to the question, Who is Obama?
